About us

ABS 2026 is a half-day workshop focused on population-aware biometrics across visual, physiological and behavioral modalities. The goal is to move from average-user pipelines to adaptive systems designed for diverse real-world users and conditions. It covers sensing, representation, learning, and evaluation protocols tailored to specific user groups and operational constraints.

Important Dates

Mon, Jun 15, 2026
Abstract registration deadline
Mon, Jun 15, 2026
Submission deadline
Mon, Aug 31, 2026
Workshop date

Call For Paper

Population-Specific Modeling
Behavior and Multimodality
Signal-Based Biometrics
Data and Benchmarks
Reliability and Fairness
Ethics and Applications

The workshop invites work on adaptive modeling, multimodal fusion, benchmarking, bias and failure analysis, and real-world deployment across face, gait, person re-identification, ECG, EEG, inertial, and wearable data. Submissions should be in IEEE double-column conference format, up to 6 pages including references.

Committee

Program Committee

Imad Rida

UTC, France

Fei Hao

Shaanxi Normal University, China

David Freire-Obregon

ULPGC, Spain

Jose J. Lorenzo Navarro

ULPGC, Spain

Modesto F. Castrillon Santana

ULPGC, Spain

Hao Wang

Xidian University, China

Federico Becattini

University of Siena, Italy

Fabio Narducci

University of Salerno, Italy

Michele Nappi

University of Salerno, Italy

Zhiyuan Tan

Edinburgh Napier University, UK

Shaohua Wan

UESTC, China

Maria De Marsico

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Florin V. Pop

UPB, Romania

Zhiwei Gao

Northumbria University, UK

Haroon Elahi

SUSTech, China

Md Z. A. Bhuiyan

Fordham University, USA

Oana Geman

Stefan Cel Mare University, Romania

Daniele Lozzi

University of L'Aquila, Italy

Enrico Mattei

University of L'Aquila, Italy

Organizing Committee

Lucia Cimmino

lucia.cimmino@unipegaso.it

Carmen Bisogni

cbisogni@unisa.it

Chiara Pero

c.pero@unilink.it

Marco Cascio

m.cascio@unilink.it